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Desolation island by Patrick O'Brian
epub | | | Author:Patrick O'Brian [O'Brian, Patrick]

"Poor Michad Herapath,"wrote Stephen in his book, "he suffers much. I know the harrow's mark too well ever to mistake it, the harrow directed by a determined woman. Perhaps I ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 18,2018 )
The fortune of war by Patrick O'Brian
epub | | | Author:Patrick O'Brian [O'Brian, Patrick]

'Pray tell me about him now. There is an hour to go before our supper.' Stephen did not very much wish to know about Captain Broke, but he did want ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 18,2018 )
The Truelove by Patrick O'Brian
epub | | | Author:Patrick O'Brian [O'Brian, Patrick]

But it was worth their toil. The fishing-ground was sharply defined, and as soon as they were over its border and among the boobies they found that it possessed at ...
( Category: British & Irish March 18,2018 )
Dragonfly In Amber by Diana Gabaldon
epub |eng | | Author:Diana Gabaldon [Gabaldon, Diana]

“You did too much, too soon,” Louise said severely, pulling back the curtains. “I said so, didn’t I?” “I imagine so,” I said. I sat up and swung my legs ...
( Category: Time Travel March 18,2018 )
Swan Song (amc-5) by John Galsworthy
epub |eng | | Author:John Galsworthy [Galsworthy, John]

Chapter IX. BUT—JON But Jon, who had over five miles to walk, started with the words of the old English song beating a silent tattoo within him: “How happy could ...
( Category: Physics March 18,2018 )
The Man of Property (tfs-1) by John Galsworthy
epub |eng | | Author:John Galsworthy [Galsworthy, John]

Chapter VII. AFTERNOON AT TIMOTHY’S If old Jolyon, as he got into his cab, had said: ‘I won’t believe a word of it!’ he would more truthfully have expressed his ...
( Category: Genre Fiction March 18,2018 )
Flowering Wilderness (eotc-2) by John Galsworthy
epub |eng | | Author:John Galsworthy [Galsworthy, John]

CHAPTER 18 Feelings at Condaford, after the General’s return, were vexed and uneasy. Dinny had said she would be back on Saturday, but it was now Wednesday and she was ...
( Category: Classics March 18,2018 )
Maid In Waiting (eotc-1) by John Galsworthy
epub |eng | | Author:John Galsworthy [Galsworthy, John]

CHAPTER 22 Bobbie Ferrar had one of those faces which look on tempests and are never shaken; in other words, he was an ideal permanent official—so permanent that one could ...
( Category: Classics March 18,2018 )
Henry Tilney's Diary (9781101559024) by Grange Amanda
epub |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:Grange, Amanda

Tuesday 5 March Having some business at the farrier’s, what was my surprise to see Frederick there. ‘I thought you were not coming to Bath until tomorrow,’ I said. ‘That ...
( Category: Historical March 18,2018 )
The Pale House (2014) by Luke McCallin
epub |eng | 2014-06-05 | Author:Luke McCallin [McCallin, Luke]

The desks outside Dreyer’s office were empty of personnel, papers neatly piled up and sorted next to half-filled crates. Reinhardt stood quietly in the doorway to the clerks’ office, wondering ...
( Category: Mystery March 18,2018 )
The Man from Berlin (2013) by Luke McCallin
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:Luke McCallin [McCallin, Luke]

21 There was a message slip on his desk. Thallberg had called and was waiting to see him at the State House. He put the piece of paper from Freilinger ...
( Category: Mystery March 18,2018 )
Defended by a Highland Renegade by Vonda Sinclair
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-11-30 | Author:Vonda Sinclair [Sinclair, Vonda]

*** The next morn, after Darack and Mairiana had quickly broken their fast, they headed toward the ship in the cool, misty rain. They all suspected that Alec would leave ...
( Category: Historical March 18,2018 )
Is Heathcliff a Murderer? by John Sutherland
epub |eng | 2017-03-18 | Author:John Sutherland [John Sutherland]

Fosco, we remember, is a mesmerist: the Rubelles are thugs. What we can plausibly suppose is that, like the other luckless Woman in White, Anne was incarcerated for quite some ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 18,2018 )
What the Victorians Made of Romanticism by Mole Tom;
epub |eng | 2017-03-18 | Author:Mole, Tom;

FIGURE 21. Statue of Byron by R. C. Belt, Hyde Park, London. Photo by the author. The need to embed a literary pantheon within a more general one also influenced ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 18,2018 )
The Mark and the Void: A Novel by Paul Murray
azw |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Paul Murray [Murray, Paul]

In the mirrored wall of the lift I examine myself. Bila clings to my lapels and shoulders, glowing faintly like magical dandruff. I brush it away as best I can, ...
( Category: Humor & Satire March 18,2018 )

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